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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Neoliberals have no comradery and see each other as competition. They look for opportunities to tear each other down instead of supporting each other, thus making their community weaker as a whole.

Whereas the communists support one another and seek to help build their community as a whole, thus leading to a stronger, more supportive community.

"The animal species, in which individual struggle has been reduced to its narrowest limits, and the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development, are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress."- Peter Kropotkin

TLDR- Sucks that you don't have our level of solidarity, libs.

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We are united in spirit and purpose, comrade. We are one well-oiled shitposting machine. For every poster that falls, ten posters will take their place.

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They say that Hexbear only has enough keyboards for half of its posters, so they send people into threads in pairs, and when the first poster is banned, the second picks up his keyboard and continues posting bugs-stalin

[–] YoungBelden@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

michael-laugh

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this deserves to be a site tagline

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

sankara-salute I'm just doing my part!

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

stalin-approval

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is probably one of the best online communities I've ever participated in

Much better than ceaselessly arguing about which Fallout game was the best

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The answer is New VEGAS meow-tableflip

And 2.

2 is also good

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have I told you lately that I love you? meow-hug

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Wanna join our polycule?

[–] StalinForTime@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

100%.

When I'm forced to spend any amount of social time with liberals, especially the more reptilian ones you encounter in academia and managers, especially if they have an explicitly perverted ideology of neoliberalism, and even when they are suposedly best friends, I recognize after not much time that they actually don't like eachother. They hate eachother. They are jealous, petty and envious. They are all insecure. Their understanding of generosity and sympathy is absolutely reducible to a market relation of exchange for profit in purely inhuman sense, and not even in a progressive social sense of reciprocity. They often dontunderstand that friendship can be good in and of itself, perhaps because they are so alienated and toxic that they've forgotten what actual friendship is, and that love is not reducible to material or economic dependence (fantastic scene which shows this in season 3 of Succession, in Italy between Tom and Greg).

I've had many ex-liberal friends become communists just because they were so alienated by their liberal friends that they started hanging out more with communists and were like "oh damn these people actually like eachother and don't try to demean eachother".

Almost all the communists I know who come to hate eachother do so cos of theoretical and practical political beefs.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

a coworker explained to me that he was suing his sister in court because he loaned her money for rent and she hadn't paid him back. I took a full 30 seconds to respond because I couldn't fathom treating anyone, leave alone family, so transactionally. it's not like he needed the money - he was just willing to trash his sister's life because he felt entitled to.

[–] potopato@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I migrated from Lemmy.world just so I can upvote communists bullying liberals lmao

[–] MerryChristmas@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

You've found your people. Welcome to the team.

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this is praxis.

I'm thinking about making a alternate on another instance so I can go downvote libs.

[–] potopato@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Are downvotes disabled at Hexbear?

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

No, they're just bigger and don't get counted downbear

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

They're conditioned to and glorify negativity, is what it is. I get downvoted for the most innocuous shit when I post or comment in self-proclaimed "liberal" instances.

I've been commenting frequently on y'alls posts since you federated. I've not received a single downvote here. Not one.

They find even-keeledness and agreeability sinister. That says a lot.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

mfw I get ratioed by an instance that disabled downvotes

[–] YoungBelden@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

lmao for real, we operating at half power and still winning

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

We are extremely online, in the best and worst ways

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Its weird that people in a particualar environment might like what others in that specific ecosystem have to say"

[–] Ideology@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

You're not supposed to talk, you're just meant to upvote memes.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

It's actually really nice seeing these high numbers. It feels like Lemmy is getting a lot of traffic and is really active! It's just a shame that in its current state, the smaller communities get buried and are basically invisible to the front page.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's simple, I see Hexbears that I have spent the last THREE YEARS posting with, and I upvote.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

fidel-salute Comrades stick together

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Like, we all know each other and have an ACTUAL COMMUNITY. Of course we do.

These liberals see each other as nothing, remember nobody, and build no unique culture of their own. They have no relationships with each other. They don't get it. We actually like each other. I care about people here you liberal losers.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

@randint@lemm.ee I want you to read this.

You need to understand that we've all been here 3 years already, we know each other, care about each other, have a real community with a real unique culture forged through bonds and laughs and drama and dumb shit. We have an actual community, not just a bunch of people that don't know each other who press updoot and downdoot and generally just see one another as faceless individuals. We trust each other and genuinely like each other.

I genuinely hope that you can create something like it and come to care about the other posters around you in time. You should try to. Build something more meaningful than a reddit clone where everyone treats everyone like a bunch of faceless anons, build a real community.